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Soundwave on 31 August 2023
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Chrkeller said:
Soundwave said:

Tegra T239 isn't a guess, it's in Nvidia's firmware leaks. 

Yes, the "Pro" Switch did launch. It's called the Switch OLED. There are no chipset improvements because Nvidia I would guess doesn't just give away free chip upgrades, they treat it as basically an entirely new chip and it cost a lot to do that. That's not for just Nintendo either, if you look at the Tegra X1 or Tegra Parker chips there isn't like a "custom version of Tegra X1 with totally different specs made for client XYZ", like for example there is a VR headset that uses the Tegra Parker ... but it's the stock, regular Parker, Nvidia doesn't give custom versions of the chip out (as in like "hey lets double the GPU cores for this client or add a different CPU). 

I think if Nintendo could have they would've done a DSi XL or New 3DS type hardware refresh on the OLED model, but Nvidia doesn't work that way so they settled basically just to have the OLED display and doubled the onboard flash storage. 

Leaked isn't confirmed nor do we know if it will be under clocked.  Nor do we know about ram, etc.

The Pro never launched, period.  The leaks were fake, period.

We disagree, which is fine.  Let it be.

Maybe you could do like 2 minutes of research on the chip (Tegra T239), there's quite a bit known about it actually. 

The Pro is the OLED, the "leaks" were accurate in saying it would have an OLED display and they did get the exact screen size correct (if they guessed that by random happenstance then I guess they should go play the lottery too with that kind of luck), they just got confused with Switch 2 as well and assumed it was one product which is not an unreasonable mistake to make. Saying "all leaks are false forever and ever because of that" is just dumb in my view.

You also do understand that just because you "downclock" a chip doesn't mean you get it for a cheaper price, right? Like if the Tegra T239 is a 3 TFLOP chip and Nintendo decides to cripple it "because Nintendo!" to 1 TFLOP, they're still paying for the 3 TFLOP chip, that's not Nvidia's problem. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 31 August 2023